Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-01-21
West Virginia Notes.

road Company for its last fiscal year
shows the gross earnings to have been
slO,673, expenses, sl3, 546.7l; earnings
less than expenses, $2,773.21.
West Virginia has been very lucky.
Last week the President appointed one
of its citizens to the lucrative consul
ship at southampton, England. The
lucky man was Henry II. Pendleton,
OF Wheeling.
Application will be made to the Leg
islature this winter to form another
county out Of portions Of Wayne, Lin
coin and Logan, owing to the great dis
tanss it is for many inhabitants OF each
county to reach their county seats.
West Virginia is accredited with hay
nc in the three months prior to Deem
Der 1st put in operation one blast fur
mace, one railroad company, thirteen
wood working establishments, sixty-six
foundries and five smelling companies.
Robert Warren, an old resident of
Wood county, committed suicide last
week by hanging himself with trace
chain. No other cause than hard times
can be assigned for his rashness, as he
was mentally sound. He left large
family destitute.
Herman Shope, of Charleston, got up
the other night, and unluckily used
glass in which his little boy had left
marble. AS it rolled dow n his throat
he wa. sure he had swallowed Il mouse,
a lizard or snake. He was relieved on
learning the truth.
DR.. George Farrand, aged one hum
dred and two years, died last Monday
night at his home, in Kanarha county.
He was born in Litchield, CT. and
graduated from Jefferson Medical Col
lege, in Philadelphia, where he prac-
ticed medicine for over fifty years. Up to
the last moment all his senses were per-
IecL ana MS Ullllu sOunu'
West Virginia Aasons were pleased
to hear that their State was honored by
having member Of the Supreme Grand
Council of the Thirty-third degree, An
Gent Scottish Rite. in the person Of
George Davis, Of Charleston, Kanawha
county, who was recently elected grand
standard bearer Of the Supreme Coun-
Gil.
Mr.. Joseph B. Vanmeter, of Hardy
county, still has the faithful .teel that
bore him in many Il battle and many
weary marches during the civil war.
He is now over thirty years old, but is
remarkably frisky for his age. Mr..
Vanmeter has put him OH the retired
list, and he has not been required to co
any drudgery for several years.
Jacob Welch, Of Richie county, was
recently in the woods cutting timber
when he felled a small maple which
proved to be hollow. There is nothing
remarkable about that, however, bun
when twenty.seven squirrels vacated
that hollow tree, there was something
remarkable in that. 1t is supposed to
have been boarding house.
A sad outbreak Of insanity is repor-
ted from Whiteday, Taylor county.
Washington Lake has five grown daugh-
tiers. Two weeks ago Tabitha got mar.
ried and the young people of the neigh
borhood, including her four sisters Gel
ebrated the event by dancing all night
and nearly all the next day. On the
evening of the second day Martha, one
of the sisters, lost her reason and devel-
oped into a raving maniac, and four
days later the bride went stark mad.
Since then the three other sisters have
exhibited evidences of insanity.
Some Pittsburg capitalists. who are
interested in the iron industry and
stockholders in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, contemplate scheme to de-
velop the mineral wealth of the South.
They propose to build railroad from
Pittsburg to Mobile. The exact route
has not yet been determined on, but l.:
will probably pass through Ohio, Mar
shall, Wetzel, Tyler, Peasants. Woods,
jackson. Mason, Cabell, Wayne, Logan
and Mcdowell counties, w. Va; Buch-
anan and Wise counties, Va; Ashe,
Wautauga, Mitchell, Madison, Hay
wood and Cherokee counties, n. c.:
James, Bradley and Hamilton counties,
Tenn: then on direct line to Mobile.
A special from Huntingdon says A bout
week ago reports were received from
counties in the southern part of the State.
saying that loud detonations had been
heard and violent tremors of the earth fel
along the valley Of Big Ugly run, trib-
utary Of the Guyandotte river. Aletter
received from Lincoln county says that
a few days ago, while lumbermen were
floating logs down Big Ugly creek. they
came to an otstI uction which did not
exist when they passed up to cut the
timber, month before. The bed OF the
stream was filled with huge fragments
of stone, and the top Of the mountain
showed huge cratsr-like scar, and the
observers could see large column Of
steam arising from it.
Thomas johnson last Thursday night
ate his thirtieth quail at Springfield ,
ILL.,. restaurant. on wager that he